New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-08
FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND MEATS.

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ORANGES POURING IN PRICES OF POULTRY, GAME
AND FISH.
movement is on foot among the wholesale COM
mission merchants who deal largely IN summer fruits
aud vegetables TO do away with the Sunday delivery
of produce by the railway companies this summer.
In the fruit some merchants insist on oo'a-
ing their fruit from the railways Suoday thus get
ting II IN shape for sale much earlier Monday norn
ing than they could get il otherwise This forces other
merchants who would otherwise gladly give their men
and horses the needed Sundays rest, to do nkewise
committee of the most influential colhmlsson NOR
chants has obtained promises from the Reading, rem
svlvania New-Jersey Central and other railways not
to deliver fruit vegetables to consgnees on sunday
this season. IL,
The MARYLAND peach growers meet In convention az
Dover on next Thursday and the chief topic OF dis
cusson will he the refusal OF w-fork merchants
any longer to make deposit on peach baskets wncn
are 10 be returned. Delegates from the New YORK
Retail Grocers Association aud frum the wholesale
commission merchants hero have been appointed to
meet them at Dover and endeayor to arrange matters
O. r. Palmer tho Reade-st commission merchant.
thinks the peach basket OF the future and the one
likely to settle the difficulty, is the newly introduced
paper basket. II is light, strong, and so cheap that
IL can be sold outright to the consumer without IN
creasing TO any appreciabo degree the cost oil Its
contents -,
Those growers who able 10 hold their irut the
longest got the best prices this year Europeah
oranges are pouring into the city in greater
quantities than ever before Several shiploads
arrived last week of 10000 boxes each and yet tho
nrices stand firm an encouraging thought for dealers
who fluid the American market Tor good irut ncreas-
Ing yearly. -.. -, .u, L. tor oor,v cham
,trawberes will begin 10 send in her crop toward the
end OF this week and by the middle ot next week the
luscious fruit will be selling ut prices within the
reach OF almost every one.
peas string beans, cucumbeis and tomatoes, are
arriving in large quantities now. bermuda potatoes
sell at 50 barrel and bermuda onions NJ pl oo 10
81 crate. .
New-Jersev ana Long Island asparagus has just
begun to in. IL is OF fine quality this year and
il selling high-Si aud SO dozen punches.
Lettuce grown in the open air IL now pushing the
hot house product the wall Lettuce seldom comes
from lar south it easiy Wits and loses its attrac-
tivcness New-England hot house lettuce supplies
the early trade.
Small lots OF California cherries coming in
already and bring 81 pound. Fair Havana pine
apples may be had for 81 30 Dozen
In the fish market shad are abundant. Norm kver
sell AT 80 cents each and Connecticut shad higher.
Mackerel bloaters, kingish cod and blnehsh arrive
regularly in large quantities. Oregon salmon, with
the eniras removed before shipment so az to prevent
waste are 30 cents n pound. and brook trout remain
clans and prawns do their best TO MI tue gap el ny
spring lamb is the king If the meat market 1t is
scarce and sells for 81 70 and W Tor headquarters
and 50 to So 80 for iorequarers.
The poutry market presents its usual appearance.
Philadel ,ha spring chickens weighing two and three
pounds to the pair are n 20 ana ~ 90. InPons
2s cents, Western roasting chickens, Is cents
Philadelphia fowls IL cents. and Western fowls IL
cents a pound. Mutton turkeys cost 20 cents,
Western turkeys 30 cents, and boiling turkeys 10
cents n pound. Vermont geese are ~ cents and
Boston ducks % cents pound.
The monotony OF these standard types is varied by
n great collection OF snipes. plover martins, canada
snow birds. frozen Scotch grouse, wild pigeons ana
SQUADS and other game birds, whose spider like claws
and RULED plumase fringe the stands